Education Resources: Cinderella

About Cinderella

Strap yourselves in and get ready to be transported to the floating city of Venice for a story that will remind you to shine bright and stand out from the crowd.

Angelina is a designer, costumier and seamstress of unparalleled skill. She longs to design bold, beautiful clothing but is stuck making ugly garments for her social-climbing step father Don Magnifico and sister Tisbe.

Prince Ramiro has been charged to host a grand ball during the Venetian Carnival and wants to wear something wild and unusual to prove his uniqueness. He announces a city-wide competition, but is there anyone in Venice who can rise to the challenge?

Based on Rossini’s La Cenerentola, this brand-new initiative has been especially devised for school students of primary school ages.

Singing and Storytelling

Singing and Storytelling is a new initiative for primary schools to develop singing and drama skills in teachers and their students as they engage in storytelling activities inspired by Opera Australia’s new work Cinderella.

This resource consists of eight activities which take up to one hour to complete. The unit of work may be completed over a series of weeks or in a block of intense rehearsal, whatever suits your classroom needs and schedule. As the class works through the activities they build a repertoire of songs, musical skills and drama techniques which become the foundation of their own creative response to a story telling challenge.

The programme engages children in a range of music, drama and cross curricular activity as they explore this original tale based on the fairy tale Cinderella. All activities are supported by lesson plans, backing tracks, word sheets, suggested cross curricular activities and extensive teacher notes unpacking the concepts and tasks.

Participation in this classroom program will foster teamwork, listening and communication skills, resilience, creative problem solving and critical thinking skills. By the end of the program they will have devised, rehearsed and performed their own version of the story, and had a lot of fun along the journey!